Welcome to the Official Schedule for RightsCon 2019, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age.
Together at RightsCon Tunis, our first summit hosted in the Middle East and North Africa, more than 2500 expert practitioners will come together across over 400 sessions to shape, contribute to, and drive forward the global agenda for the future of our human rights.
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Please join us for a special talk with the United Nations Independent Expert on the rights of older persons on her work on robots and assistive technology. In the context of ageing societies, lack of health professionals and economic constraints, the use of assistive devices and robotics is increasingly seen as a cost-effective solution to make health care systems sustainable. The United Nations Independent Expert on the rights of older persons examined how these technologies and robots impact older persons’ life and the enjoyment of their rights. Assistive technologies were first designed to perform simple, routine tasks to allow human staff to dedicate more time to complex tasks. Robots are now taking on more and more medical and caregiving tasks. This inevitably affects the enjoyment by older persons of their human rights, including their dignity and autonomy, informational self-determination and non-discrimination and equality. The UN expert stresses the need for a human rights-based approach to underpin discussions in that field and make sure we will adequately address current and future challenges and ensure sufficient protection of older people’s rights.
Peggy Hicks is the Director of Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Rights to Development Division at the UN’s human rights office. From 2005 to 2015, Peggy Hicks was the global advocacy director at Human Rights Watch and you were also responsible for coordinating Human Rights... Read More →
Thursday June 13, 2019 9:00am - 10:15am
Jelsa (Laico)
